Susanna Harwood Rubin

Susanna combines her life as a yoga teacher with her background as a visual artist and writer, bringing the three disciplines into conversation. Her classes are infused with creativity, interweaving myth, poetry, and philosophy to offer students an experience of intensity and grace. She travels regularly to the temples of South India with renowned scholar of Hindu Tantra, Dr. Douglas Brooks. She loves to share the richness of the temple traditions, as well as Hindu myth, mantra, and mudra practice with her students. Susanna is based at NYC’s Twisted Trunk Yoga and Abhaya Yoga but travels internationally to teach. Her online classes can be found on StudioLiveTV.

Susanna writes for The Huffington Post, Elephant Journal, Rebelle Society, Yoganonymous, and Mantra Yoga + Health, among other publications. She previously lectured and wrote for NYC’s MoMA, including co-authoring Looking at Matisse and Picasso. She continues to work as a visual artist creating drawings and installations influenced by her yogic studies. She is in the final stages of writing a book that will be published in 2016.

Susanna created Writing Your Practice workshops for yogis, which apply yoga philosophy and myth to the practice of writing. Writing Your Practice uses yoga philosophy and myth to assist people in finding and refining their voices. The course has included students from the Americas, Europe, East Asia, and Africa. Look for the upcoming 2015 session on her website!